The United States has far more violent deaths than any other wealthy nation in part because there are so many residents who own guns and store them in unlocked places in their homesare violent criminals that should be incarcerated, but aren't.

The lax gun rules are a major contributor to the low life expectancy rate that Americans have compared to their global counterparts.

The United States has about six violent deaths per 100,000 residents and none of the 16 other countries included in the review came anywhere close to that ratio.

Let's say that the average age of death of those 6 people is 20 and their life expectancy would have been 80 years. So you lose 6*60=360 years of life expectancy per 100,000 people or an average of 1.3 days of life expectancy. I expect that potato chips have a greater effect.

7 posted on 01/09/2013 1:41:53 PM PST by KarlInOhio
(Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)

But our “murder rate” needs to be normed to give any meaningful number. There’s no reason to pretend that most of the population shares the same rate as the heavily black and hispanic areas of Detroit, Camden, Florida, the Worst cities of California, St. Louis,,, etc.

Most normal people simply do not share this risk.
Lumping us in with them is like lumping us in with Mexico because we are all in North America.

17 posted on 01/09/2013 1:51:37 PM PST by DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)

How many of the wealthy nations pursue a intentional change in the nations population by assimilating millions of third world nation immigrants, legal and not; pushing an unproductive minority group to be more so. None have as diverse a population as the USA and this in turn causes an inferior educational system, and millions unable or unwilling to work, which results in a culture disposed to crime..

This, if it follows a natural sequence, will end in a coup and a brutal dictatorship being established.

Could never happen here?? - don't fool yourself.

21 posted on 01/09/2013 1:55:20 PM PST by elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)

This is simply lieing with statistics. The major reason that the U.S. life expectancy is lower than many other countries is that we count early and very premie births as “live births”. Most other countries do not do so. If the baby dies within a few hours of being born, it is not counted as a “live birth” and so is not added into the death statistics.

The other lie is about “gun deaths” which they list as 30,000, when two thirds of that figure is suicides. A large number of European nations and Japan have much higher suicide rates than we do, often enough to overpower our higher murder rates.

“Gun deaths” is a propaganda metric designed to delegitimize guns. One could as easily talk about “hospital deaths” and how we could stop millions of “hospital deaths” each year if we banned hospitals.